Mr. Thilak de Silva. BSc. Eng., MSc, CEng, FIE(SL), FIET(UK), CITP(UK), MBCS(UK), MIEEE (USA) M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 A brainstorming session  Concept Paper M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 At the end of this session you will understand the requirements of setting up a Network for a new company, budgeting and creation of Concept Paper. M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 Analyze the requirements of the company.  Allocated budget.  Geographical locations of the network.  Technical capabilities of the staff of the company.  Number of sub-networks  Security of the Network M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 Selection of the venders and service providers.  Type of data/information transported through the network.  Bandwidth Requirements.  Type of organization - academic/ commercial  Routing Protocols used.  Company's future plans. M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 IPV4 or IPV6  Is VPN required?  Centralized or De-Centralized?  What is the Back-up plan?  Required time line. M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 Step 1 : Identify automation areas. Web portal, Other applications Billing, Inventory control, HR, Finance, VOIP, vedio conferencing or ERP M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 Step 2 : Physical locations to be networked WAN, LAN For example identify,  Switches for each floor of the building  Fiber connections  Structured caballing  L3 switches for VLANs M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II Source :

 Step 3 : Can connect other existing systems For example identify,  Number of users per application  Step 4 : Methodology of maintaining the network – Network Management System M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 Step 5 : Draw Network diagram  For Example,  Identify number of buildings and number of floors per each location. Example :- An organization has, Headquarters with 4 buildings and 5 floors each Provincial offices. Branches Regional officers Remote officers Customer service points. M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II Different number of buildings and floors

Example :- Headquarters has,  For each level get a generic model, because finding buildings, floors and users in every office is time consuming. M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II BuildingFloorUsers

 Step 6 : List the physical devices For example identify,  24 port L2 switches, L3 switches  Router per center  Firewall  Servers for web portal,  DNS server, DHCP server  Virus guard server  Network management server M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 Step 6 : List the physical devices For example identify,  24 port L2 switches, L3 switches  Router per center  Firewall  Servers for web portal,  DNS server, DHCP server  Virus guard server  Network management server M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 Step 7 : Caballing Structured caballing per floor  Step 8 : Identify software requirements Eg:- Software for servers, ITIL software  Step 9 : WAN connectivity  Step 10 : Identify operational cost Eg :- Software license cost Maintenance cost WAN fee M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II

 By taking these into consideration we prepare the budget.  Using it we prepare the concept paper.  We can present the cost phase wise. M.Sc. in IT - Year 1 Semester II